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    Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll...
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    Records he was in charge of finances. In 1954, Abner became part owner and general manager of Vee-Jay Records. He was appointed president of Vee-Jay in...
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  • Interphon Records was a sub-label from Vee-Jay Records to distribute its European-leased masters in the US. It was active from 1964 until 1965. The U.S...
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  • Introducing... The Beatles (category Vee-Jay Records albums)
    scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP came out on 10 January 1964, on Vee-Jay Records, ten days before Capitol's Meet the Beatles! The latter album, however...
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  • Tollie Records was a record label formed in February 1964, as a subsidiary label of Vee-Jay Records. It closed in May 1965. The label distributed two of...
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  • States label distributed by Vee-Jay Records This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Champion Records. If an internal link led you...
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    (March 25, 1921 – June 12, 1989) was an American record company executive who was a founder of Vee-Jay Records with her future husband, Jimmy Bracken. Carter...
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  • Falcon Records (Massachusetts), a record label from Bentley University Falcon Records, a subsidiary of Vee-Jay records renamed Abner Records This disambiguation...
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  • Liverpool record store, NEMS, an estimated $100 million in licensing fees. After the Beatles' success in 1964, Vee-Jay Records and Swan Records took advantage...
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  • Veejay (redirect from VeeJay)
    personality), a television announcer who introduces music videos Vee-Jay Records, an American record label VJ (disambiguation) Vijay (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • In Records was a record label started in 1964 and distributed by Vee-Jay Records. List of record labels v t e...
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  • Original Blues Classics/Riverside Records. 1991. Back cover. OBCCD-542-2/RLP-12-838. Travelin' (Album notes). Vee-Jay Records. 1960. Back cover. VJLP 1023...
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  • The Early Beatles (category Capitol Records compilation albums)
    Capitol Records, and their eighth album overall for the American market. All eleven tracks on this album were previously issued on the Vee-Jay Records release...
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  • Oldies-33 (category Defunct record labels of the United States)
    Oldies-33 was a subsidiary of Vee-Jay Records. It was started in 1963 to distribute their old 33rpm records. List of record labels v t e...
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    including Vee-Jay, Chess Records, OKeh, ABC-Paramount, Brunswick, and Curtom, established a major presence in R&B/soul music. Vee-Jay Records is an American...
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  • The El Dorados (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    signed them to her Vee-Jay Records label, making their first recordings in mid 1954. After a string of unsuccessful singles, they recorded "At My Front Door"...
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  • Souvenir of Their Visit to America (category Vee-Jay Records EPs)
    Vee-Jay Records. Vee-Jay was a small company with few resources, and as a result of little publicity or promotion, the records sold poorly. Vee-Jay lost...
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  • After Vee Jay was forced to close by financial problems, Calvin Carter worked at Liberty Records, running their soul subsidiary, Minit Records, for a...
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    The Staple Singers (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    During their early career, they recorded in an acoustic gospel-folk style with various labels: United Records, Vee-Jay Records (their "Uncloudy Day" and "Will...
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  • Tomorrow's Hits is a 1962 compilation album issued by Vee-Jay Records. Unlike most compilations, the album showcased not songs which had already been...
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  • The Beatles' Second Album (category Capitol Records albums)
    Introducing... The Beatles, which was issued three months earlier by Vee-Jay Records. Following its release in April 1964, The Beatles' Second Album replaced...
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  • Beatlemania, Vee-Jay Records released a mild abridgment of the album as Introducing... The Beatles in early 1964, while EMI's American label Capitol Records divided...
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  • – October 7, 1980) was an American record company executive. As an executive and later President of Vee-Jay Records in the early 1960s, he was involved...
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  • Swan Silvertones (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    group recorded for Specialty Records from 1951 to 1955, when it switched to Vee-Jay Records. They recorded one album with HOB Records after Vee-Jay shut...
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    The Four Coins (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    Red Rose" Vee Jay Records VJ 474: "They Say"/"Jimmy San" 1963 Vee Jay Records VJ 551: "Nina"/"(Little Darlin‘) Take A Bow" 1964 Joy Records 45K-284: "Boys...
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  • records were distributed independently until 1962 when a distribution arrangement was set up with Vee-Jay Records. Ace Records stopped when Vee-Jay ran...
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  • Beatles VI (category Capitol Records albums)
    released into that market in less than one and a half years (Vee-Jay Records and United Artists Records also released one album each during that period). The...
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  • most notably Vee-Jay, Constellation Records, Chess Records, Mercury Records, OKeh, ABC-Paramount, One-derful, Brunswick and its Dakar Records subsidiary...
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    Eddie Harris (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    returning to Chicago where he signed a contract with Vee Jay Records. His first album for Vee Jay, Exodus to Jazz, included his own jazz arrangement of...
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  • Hear the Beatles Tell All (category Vee-Jay Records albums)
    Live in Person Interviews Recorded During Their Latest American Tour) is an album released in the United States by Vee-Jay Records in November 1964. One side...
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